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12-letter words containing s, o, u, r, c, e

  • electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
  • encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
  • endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
  • enterococcus — A streptococcus of a group that occurs naturally in the intestine but causes inflammation and blood infection if introduced elsewhere in the body (e.g., by injury or surgery).
  • escape route — way out: of situation
  • eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
  • exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
  • exclusive or — (logic)   (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
  • excursioning — Present participle of excursion.
  • excursionist — A person who goes on excursions; a traveller or tourist.
  • excursionize — to go on an excursion or excursions
  • executioners — Plural form of executioner.
  • executorship — The office or position of an executor.
  • false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
  • fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
  • fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
  • fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.
  • focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
  • forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
  • foreclosures — Plural form of foreclosure.
  • formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
  • fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
  • fructiferous — fruit-bearing; producing fruit.
  • fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
  • fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
  • furfuraceous — of or containing bran.
  • future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
  • geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
  • gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
  • graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
  • graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
  • granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
  • groupuscules — Plural form of groupuscule.
  • herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
  • heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
  • homo erectus — an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
  • house church — a group of Christians meeting for worship in a private house
  • house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
  • house prices — the sums in money for which houses may be bought or sold
  • housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
  • housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
  • in course of — in the process of
  • inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
  • indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
  • insurrection — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
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